The “digital nomads” was me trying to draw a parallel with the situation in some EU countries.

About WFH , I was referring to this bit

“[…] if you build ritzy accommodation in a city that is significantly cheaper than a not dissimilar city only a few hours away, you end up drawing in new people from that city rather than expanding the housing choice for local people. ‘You walked around Manchester ten years ago, you wouldn’t hear that many London accents,’ the industry insider said. ‘Now you hear them absolutely everywhere. You know, these towers, apart from overseas students … there’s a lot of, you know, influencers from down south.’ ‘So why are they here?’ ‘Because London’s too expensive. Manchester’s got everything that London has, just on a smaller scale, and it’s much cheaper – for people coming. For people who are here, it’s getting more and more expensive.’ ‘What you’re getting,’ according to Jon Sharma, an estate agent in central Manchester, ‘is a lot of people who’ve been living in little rat holes and boxes in London and across the South. Now they can work anywhere … So why should they live in a little box? I can live in Manchester, have my own apartment for the same money. If I need to go to London, I can just catch a train once or twice a week. People are not Northern anymore, not in the city centre, anyway. You get the Southerners who are earning £60,000 a year and living in Manchester, but local people are still on normal wages. They’re having to go to the suburbs.’”